Updates from December, 2007

USC announced today that redshirt freshman Kasey Cunningham will miss the remainder of the season after being diagnosed with an ACL and lateral meniscus tear. The forward, who suffered the injury this week in practice, will undergo surgery to repair the damage within the next few weeks, and rehabilitation is expected to last up to […]

The Trojans have shifted the dates of a few of its football games on its 2008 schedule to accommodate television:

USC’s road game at Oregon State has been moved from 9/27 to 9/25 (a Thursday)
USC’s home game against Oregon has been moved from 11/22 to 10/4

Moving the Ducks game helps correct the Trojans’ unbalanced 2008 schedule, […]

Redlands East Valley senior running back Chris Polk has backed out of an earlier verbal commitment to USC and will instead attend the University of Washington, he announced earlier this week. Polk’s commitment to the Huskies is firm enough that he will leave high school early and enroll at the university in January. It’s not […]

The LA Times is reporting that redshirt freshman forward Kasey Cunningham, who has played key minutes during SC’s biggest games this fall, twisted and may have seriously injured his surgically repaired left knee during practice on Wednesday. Cunningham sat out all of last season while rehabbing from a torn ACL in the same knee suffered during his […]

USC picked up its first ever national championship in women’s soccer on Sunday when the second-seeded Women of Troy edged third-seeded Florida State, 2-0, in College Station, Texas. It was a tournament record-setting fifth shutout for the Trojans, and their 15th shutout overall this season under first-year head coach Ali Khosroshahin. USC finished the season […]

The Trojans practiced Saturday for the last time until Friday (Dec. 14), allowing players to focus on final exams and coaches to hit the road hard recruiting. “We’ll be all over the place next week,” Pete Carroll told Rivals. At the conclusion of practice, Carroll told the media that three players stood out during the first two […]

A rare December exhibition game did not go well for the Trojans on Saturday, as Fresno Pacific–coached by ex-Trojan interim head coach Jim Saia–defeated USC by a score of 65-44 at the Galen Center. Before you jump to conclusions, you should keep in mind that USC rested all of its top five leading scorers for […]

With sophomore forward Taj Gibson seemingly in foul trouble or fouling out of every game this season, it’s extremely welcome news that freshman 7-footer Mamadou Diarra will likely get his first playing time since training camp tonight against NAIA’s Fresno Pacific. Diarra underwent hernia surgery on November 5.  Freshman guard Marcus Simmons, out since the South Carolina […]

Friday’s 90-minute workout, its first practice of an allowed 15 prior to the Rose Bowl, was conducted without QB John David Booty, who banged up his finger in the UCLA game. Booty will also miss today’s (Saturday’s) practice, the team’s final practice before reconvening next Friday, to attend a class field trip.  Other seniors, including LB […]

USC’s Fred Davis, Sedrick Ellis, and Taylor Mays were named on Friday to the 2007 The Sporting News All-American first team. In addition, Everson Griffen was named to that publication’s freshman All-American first-team.
Davis, Ellis, Mays Make 2007 Sporting News All-American First Team (Official USC site)
SN’s 2007 college football All-Americans (Sporting News)